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A welterweight bout between Brandon Thatch (11-4 MMA) and Siyar Bahadurzada (22-6-1 MMA) served as the main attraction of tonight’s UFC 196 preliminary card in Las Vegas. Round one begins and Thatch opens with a high kick. Some solid leg kicks score for Thatch. Siyar presses forward with punches. Thatch is landing kicks at will...

A welterweight slug-fest has been added to December’s UFC 168 event in Las Vegas, as UFC officials announced that Siyar Bahadurzada (21-5-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) will meet John Howard (21-8 MMA, 5-3 UFC) at the promotions year-end show. John Howard made his octagon return at the “UFC Fight Night 26” event in Boston, where he...

In a piece of potentially upsetting news for fight fans, Siyar Bahadurzada has been injured and forced to withdraw from his highly anticipated bout with Robbie Lawler in a fight that would prompted an obligatory ‘don’t blink’ from UFC color commentators. But, the UFC has done well to keep the fireworks a very likely happening....

Welterweight bout between Siyar Bahadurzada and Dong Hyun Kim are slated for UFC on Fuel 8 taking place on March 2 in Japan at the Saitama Super Arena along with 5 other fights. Post Paulo Thiago KO on his UFC debut, Bhadurzada is slated to face Dong Hyun Kim who dominated Paulo Thiago a Brazilian...

“At this point, especially after UFC 151 was cancelled, I fight anyone. I was hoping to fight later this year, but since UFC cancelled an edition I guess I’ll only fight in January now. If it works out, in Brazil. It would be great to shut (Siyar) up, but I fight whoever Joe Silva (UFC...

By Jonathan Kirschner The injury bug has struck again. Michael Bisping, Thiago Alves, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Thiago Silva, Jose Aldo and George Roop were all expected to fight at the UFC 149 card in Calgary, Alberta but were all forced off the card due to injuries. Now, you can add Siyar Bahadurzada to that list. UFC...

By Jamie McAllister Siyar Bahadurzada has signed with the Blackzilian camp. Glenn Robinson the manager of the team confirmed the news. The move will also see Siyar reunited with former Golden Glory teammate Alistair Overeem. Here is what Bahadurzada had to say in an interview with Fighters Only. “I'm so excited to be in South...

The UFC officially announced the fight card for its 149 event earlier this week and already slots are changing due to injury. Just as the fighter changing carousel makes another round, the injury bug has bit cage veteran Yoshihiro Akiyama. Akiyama is new to the welterweight division and will have to wait for another fight...

By Lewis Mckeever: The fans expected fireworks in the Paulo Thiago/Siyar Bahadurzada match up and they received no less, Bahadurzada left the Ericsson Globe Arena with a bang. After clobbering Paulo Thiago into unconsciousness after just 41 seconds of action, conversing with Kenny Florian in the post fight interview, the Afghanistan native feared he may...

By Romeo Cabras Jr: With an impressive debut this weekend at UFC on Fuel TV 2, Siyar Bahadurzada made quick work of Paulo Thiago capturing Knockout of the Night honors in just 42 seconds. But, he did so with a possible broken hand. He’s been here before. The Afghan native has already seen his share...

By Romeo Cabras Jr. UFC on Fuel TV 2 from Sweden brings the Octagon debut of welterweight Siyar Bahadurzada. Welcoming him to the UFC is none other than Paulo Thiago. This bout is on the main card, headlined by Thiago Silva vs Alexander Gustafsson, airs on Fuel TV tomorrow, April 14th, 3pm ET. A former...

Welterweights Paulo Thiago and Siyar Bahadurzada have agreed to square off during the UFC on FUEL TV 2 fight card. UFC on FUEL TV 2 is now officially set to take place at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on April 14th. The card is still in the works and the only bouts currently...

WEC veteran Carlo Prater has been tapped to replace the injured Siyar Bahadurzada and will now face Erick Silva at UFC 142 in Brazil. We announced yesterday that four-UFC 142 fighters where recently forced off the card and with the Prater booking two of the four bouts have been filled with replacements. UFC 142 is...

“I signed with the UFC! I’m very excited to be a part of the UFC and test my skills with the crème de la crème of MMA. I wanna thank the UFC and Dana White for this opportunity. I will shake up the welterweight division! Also special thanks to my team Golden Glory!” The reigning Shooto...

The fart heard round the world! A question lingering from UFC 168 is as simple as they come, “who dealt it?”. During the fight between John Howard and Siyar Bahadurzada, someone let one loose, and its been a mystery ever sense on who is the culprit. According to Howard, it is Bahadurzada who’s to blame...

As if you wanted to hear more injury news, the UFC announced via their official Twitter account that former Strikeforce welterweight champion, Tarec Saffiedine has been injured and was forced to withdraw from his fight with Robbie Lawler (20-9, 1 NC). Stepping in for the injured Saffiedine is Siyar Bahadurzada (21-5-1). Bahadurzada is returning...

In the opening bout of the main card a welterweight bout between Siyar Bahadurzada and Dong Hyun Kim kicked things off on FUEL TV. In the opening frame of action the two fighters engaged in a brief stand-up exchange before the Korean born fighter took the fight to the ground around the midway point where...

By Jamie McAllister Siyar Bahadurzada comments to TATAME. Bahadurzada got the call to replace Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 149 and face Thiago Alves however now it is his turn to wait for an opponent after the Brazilian was forced out of the bout with an undisclosed injury. He comments on the Alves fight and says...

For those of you who don’t know, Siyar Bahadurzada is the first Afghan mixed martial artist to fight for the UFC. He made his octagon debut earlier this month at UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva. A debut in which Siyar took only 42 seconds to knockout fellow welterweight contender Paulo Thiago! We were...

UFC 142 has taken a hit today. We reported just moments ago of the removal of Paulo Thiago and Stanislov Nedkov from UFC 142 and now the UFC has announced two more withdrawals from their return trip to Brazil. Both Rob Broughton and Siyar Bahadurzada have been forced off the card due to injuries suffered...

The ever growing roster for the UFC’s return trip to Brazil on Jan. 14 has just got two new additions. Welterweight fighters Siyar Bahadurzada and Erick Silva have agreed to square off as have light-heavyweights Stanislav Nedkov and Fabio Maldonado. UFC 142 is expected to go down on Jan. 14 from Rio de Janeiro’s HSBC...

Germaine de Randamie (8-3), who became the UFC’s first-ever women’s featherweight champion earlier this year, is officially returning to bantamweight. The former champ has been booked for a scrap with Marion Reneau (7-3-1), which will go down on September 2 in Rotterdam, in de Randamie’s home country of The Netherlands. This matchup was announced by...

Several times a year, the UFC goes through the process of purging their UFC roster as they remove inactive fighters, and cut fighters who are currently on losing streaks. The latest list of fighters is a rather lengthy one with several well-known fighters on the latest cut-list according to UFC Fighter’s Info: Brandon Thatch Li...

UFC 196 took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday and presented an exciting night of fights. UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor made history once again on Saturday night by becoming the first UFC fighter to earn $1,00,000 in disclosed pay for a single fight. Nate Diaz upset McGregor in...

By Evan Stoumbelis UFC 168 was one of the biggest nights of fights in UFC history topped off by Rousey defeating Miesha Tate for the second time, as well as the tragic injury of Anderson Silva in his second defeat against Chris Weidman. However two of the post fight drug tests came back as “inconclusive”....

While it was Thiago Silva who was recently arrested, a different Thiago may catch some flack for the crime, thanks to a case of mistaken identity. Fox News Latino erroneously posted a picture of UFC Welterweight Thiago Alves in a story about Silva’s arrest. The article has since been corrected, but some minor damage could...

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